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alleged disregard for scholarship.
"The example of the Chasidic mas-
ters has helped me go against my
nature a bit, loosen up and try to meet
my congregants where they are in
terms of their spiritual needs," notes
Osborne. "By nature, I am a fairly
conservative person, and [I have had
to face] changes in synagogue worship
in the last decade that have [made
worship] less formal and structured
and more participatory."
Also celebrated through Souls on Fire

harles Osborne is a
Conservative cantor in
Massachusetts, but he has
learned much about reli-
gious fervor from studying Chasidic
leaders of the past. In turn, Osborne
decided to pass along those messages
using the medium that has meant the
most in his life — music.
With an Elie Wiesel book as his
starting point and using the
same title, Osborne developed
an oratorio, Souls on Fire, to
tell the story of the founders of
European Chasidism.
His work, performed on
recording and in live concerts,
comes to Temple Israel 3 p.m.
Sunday, April 1, with some
original and local performers.
TV and film star Leonard
Nimoy, featured on the record-
ing, will be joined in narration
by Temple Israel Rabbi Joshua
Bennett and Jewish Ensemble
Theatre Artistic Director
Evelyn Orbach.
'Also on the free program are
Cantors Thom King of Bethel
Leonard Nimoy: "I admire the Chasids'
Congregation in Baltimore,
passion and love of God and Torah.
Fredda Rakusin Mendelson of
It
all moves me."
the Larchmont Temple in
Larchmont, N.Y., and Harold
Orbach and Lori Corrsin of
are Chasidic masters Maggid of
Temple Israel. Jack Jonker will conduct
Mezeritch, Levi-Yitzhak of Berditchev,
the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra
Elimelekh of Lizensk, Israel of Rizhin,
and the Saginaw Choral Society.
Nahman of Bratzlav and Menahem
"One of the major messages in the
Mendel of Kotzk.
oratorio is joy as expressed by the Ba'al
Before going ahead with his project,
Shem Tov," says Osborne, who has
Osborne
got Wiesel's approval and
composed other pieces and sung on
asked
another
cantor and neighbor,
secular stages. The Ba'al Shem Tov
Aryeh
Finkelstein,
to do the libretto.
("Master of the Good Name") was so-
"The
book
just
touched
me in a very
called by his disciples because his
special
way,
and
I
came
away
saying I
Chasidic movement respected the
should
really
set
this
to
music,"
Osborne
"simple," uneducated Jew.
recalls. "I talked over the project with
Born Israel ben Eliezer, (1700-60),
Aryeh, and a few months later, the fin-
the Ba'al Shem Toy stressed the heart
ished libretto popped out. That was the
over the head, emphasizing the feeling
framework to hang the music on.
over the act, the fervor over the deed
"It represents a turning point in my
itself. While he brought spiritual fer-
work.
Beforehand, I had written a
vor and warmth to the practice of
tremendous
amount of choral music
Judaism, he angered others over his